Mann Music Centre Philadelphia United States

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“So you like that weird stuff?” asks Ade after an exceptionally good rendition of Industry. “Well here’s some more” [endtease]he quips before launching into Dig, arguably one of the most musically schizophrenic tracks King Crimson have ever recorded. In concert, those opposing factions – pop song colliding against atonal slabs of noise terror – seem even more stark and contradictory than they ever did in the studio.

Frame By Frame has an almost laid-back quality that belies the frenetic fretwork that constitutes much of the song. After the bleeps, bloops and vworp noises have emanated from Bruford’s Simmonds kit on Indiscipline, Fripp’s solo after the first verse is a real scorcher. Mind you, Belew steps up to the plate when it’s time for his outing on the same track, proving that a little bit of competition clearly never does anyone any harm.

Although Tony’s intro on Sartori In Tangier wanders into some unexpected territorie, he sets that trademark thump of a groove providing the foundation for a fearsome series of runs from Fripp. Mister Stormy calls this a stomping performance and so it is. Sadly the source tape is incomplete so buyer beware – Sleepless and LTIA2 are missing entirely, and we only have a fragment of what sounds like a promising rendition of Elephant Talk. Nevertheless, this good quality boot captures our canny Crims just nine days before their demise at The Spectrum in Montreal.
Mann Music Centre Philadelphia United States

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TRACK
TIME
01
Entry Of The Crims
06:31
02
Larks Tongues In Aspic Pt III
05:05
03
Thela Hun Ginjeet
06:04
04
Red
05:56
05
Frame By Frame
03:24
06
Matte Kudasai
03:48
07
Industry
07:56
08
Dig Me
03:51
09
Three Of A Perfect Pair
04:10
01
Indiscipline
09:59
02
Sartori In Tangier
04:40
03
Man With An Open Heart
03:44
04
Waiting Man
07:02
05
Discipline
04:35
06
The Sheltering Sky
08:03
07
Heartbeat
03:52
08
Elephant Talk*
03:44

KC19840629Philadelphia - Bruce Bubier

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Written by Robert Emenecker
"So you like the weird stuff?"
It has been nearly 34 years since I attended this show. I was 21 at the time. This was my first King Crimson concert having just recently been turned onto them by a friend. I knew of their song "In the Court of the Crimson King" from local radio. I also was peripherally aware of the single "Three of a Perfect Pair" from a rarely rotated music video on MTV. After listening to the Beat and then Three of a Perfect Pair albums I was hooked on this incarnation of the band. When they toured and were c...
Written by Emanuel Maris
Some notes for the listener [revised]
I was in attendance at six 1984 shows: The two NYC Pier shows [6/26 & 27], this Philadelphia show [6/29], the Columbia MD show [6/30], the PHENOMENAL Hartford show [Independence Day 7/4, but actually started just past midnight on 7/5], and the final U.S. gig in Boston [evening 7/5]. At all these shows a new re-arrangement of player responsibilities was in evidence on these two pieces, which has never been officially noted on DGM CD booklets [Absent Lovers], downloads of 1984 shows, or else...
Written by Emanuel Maris
Some notes for the listener
I was in attendance at six 1984 shows: The two NYC Pier shows [6/26 & 27], this Philadelphia show [6/29], the Columbia MD show [6/30], the PHENOMENAL Hartford show [Independence Day 6/4, but actually started just past midnight on 6/5], and the final U.S. gig in Boston [evening 6/5]. At all these shows a new re-arrangement of player responsibilities was in evidence on these two pieces, which has never been officially noted on DGM CD booklets [Absent Lovers], downloads of 1984 shows, or elsew...
Written by Ernest Roebuck
"Modern English" opened that night -- a strange double bill if ever there was one, but then, who can you comfortably put next to the Crims? I was still in high school at the time, and while I had just bought "Three of A Perfect Pair" (my third CD purchase ever), I had not yet fully digested the catalogue of the 80’s lineup. I had, however, already committed "In The Court Of.." to memory, and went to this show expecting some of it to be in the setlist. Little did I know what I was in for.  ...
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